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audio / visual equipment
Graphophone used by Robert E. Peary
13 3/4 x 16 1/2 x 10 in. (35 x 42 x 25 cm)
wood
wood
ca. 1890
1885
1895
audio / visual equipment
A graphophone, or cylinder phonograph, recorded and played back sounds on wax cylinders. Robert Peary used this wood and metal graphophone to make the earliest recordings of stories and songs of the Inughuit in the 1890s. Sadly, the wax cylinder recordings are lost.
2000.4.1
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The Peary MacMillan Arctic Museum
10/9/1999
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hunting / fishing
Ulu with bone handle
Unidentified Inuk Artist
Inuit
Primary
3 1/2 x 3 1/4 x 5/8 in. (9 x 8 x 2 cm)
ivory
ivory
ca. 1890
1885
1895
Tools, Ulus
hunting / fishing
This small ulu, with an ivory handle and iron blade, was collected by Langdon Gibson on Peary's first expedtion to Northwest Greenland in 1891-2. Across the Arctic Inuit women use such crescent shaped knives for all sorts of cutting, from buthering seals to sewing.
face, a small cross-shaped mark made by incising or drilling four holes. Identified by Inuit informants as an owners mark.
2001.5.1
item
The Peary MacMillan Arctic Museum
4/13/2001
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